Jane Leggett
Jane A. Leggett is a Specialist in Energy and Environmental Policy in the Resources, Science and Industry Division of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which serves Members of Congress and their staff. She coordinates CRS expertise on climate change, and leads responses on climate change science, federal funding, international cooperation and other topics, including China’s policies and performance. For more than 15 years, Leggett led work on climate change mitigation and risk analysis at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and collaborated in many inter-agency initiatives. She shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, in part for being convening lead author of the widely-used 1992 greenhouse gas scenarios to 2100, produced for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. At EPA, she represented the U.S. Government on climate change in many fora, including the United Nations climate change negotiations, bi-laterally with key countries, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Prior to working at the Environmental Protection Agency, she was an administrator, covering the nexus between environmental and energy issues, at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. She has also served for brief periods in the Department of Energy, and in the Office of Management and Budget. Leggett has a Masters degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Middlebury College.
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